We are Virginia Sole-Smith and Corinne Fay and it’s time for your April Just Toast episode!

This is a special episode because we recorded in person! I traveled to New Mexico to see Corinne, have new Burnt Toast headshots taken and visit Meow Wolf with my kiddo and my boyfriend. It was a glorious trip and I'm excited to share some of the behind the scenes with you today.

In this episode we're talking about:

⭐️ Why it's so hard to have your photo taken.

⭐️ Thin friends not putting their fat friends on the grid.

⭐️ The art of a good selfie.

One audio note: our Airbnb in Santa Fe was an acoustical odyssey, so please bear with us on the sound quality.

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Episode 241 Transcript

Virginia

We're recording in person from an Airbnb in Santa Fe, New Mexico. If the audio is not perfect today, it's not Tommy's fault. It's that we're doing it in an adobe room and that creates some echoes.

Corinne

We have covered the floors with soft things, but it's still very echo-y.

Virginia

So bear with us. This is only our second ever in person episode, so it's going to be a really fun one.

This is a Just Toast episode. As we explained on our previous Extra Butter episode, we're no longer calling it the Indulgence Gospel, although we always will in my heart.

We're trying to make it clear what kind of episode you're listening to. So if you are listening to this whole episode right now, you are a Just Toast subscriber, which means you are a regular paid subscriber tier. There's also our premium tier, Extra Butter, for a little more money where you can get behind every single paywall. Whichever tier you are, we're very happy you're here.

Corinne

We're going to talk about something we did yesterday.

Virginia

Corinne and I did something together for the first time.

Corinne

If you're a longtime listener subscriber, you may have noticed that we have no photos together.

Virginia

Except one we took in a hot tub two years in Hot Springs.

Corinne

Yesterday, while Virginia is here in New Mexico, we got some photos taken by a photographer named Molly Haley.

Virginia

Who is an old friend of yours.

Corinne

We went to middle school and high school together.

Virginia

Since we were doing a photo shoot, we thought, well, we've got to talk about photos on the podcast because it's a whole thing.

Corinne

Photos can be hard!

Virginia

I would amend that sentence and say photos are hard.

Corinne

Although your child would disagree.

Virginia

My 8-year-old keeps telling us that that's a silly thing to think and photos are great and they love having their photo taken.

Corinne

They're not wrong.

Virginia

No, it's a lot of stuff. A lot of diet culture noise. It's a lot of being seen, I think. Being perceived.

Corinne

Would you say that you've struggled with photos?

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EPISODE CREDITS

Co-hosts: Virginia Sole-Smith and Corinne Fay. 

Producer:  Kim Baldwin. 

Logo design: Deanna Lowe.

Theme Song: Farideh.

Video Editor: Elizabeth Ayiku

Audio Engineer: Tommy Harron

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Virginia is on Instagram and Threads as @v_solesmith and on Bluesky at @virginiasolesmith.  

Corinne is on Instagram at @selfiefay, on Bluesky at @corinnefay and on Patreon at Big Undies.

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